)The reality of religionDean Alford.I. Remember these things: The late, great Sunday School teacher . (Preacher's Analyst. "For ye are dead" (Col. iii. A strained and exaggerated view of religion has been put before them, alien from their habits of thought, and by no means supported by the example of its professors.II. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. He infers holiness from this also. The aims of an ambitious man and of a true believer have no external difference, yet if you examine the inward springs of both, you will find one a piece of vanity, the other a fruit of charity.2. Mere precepts cannot touch us at all points, or constrain us to do all things in a teacher's name. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. The key-note of this chapter is that religion is a life in Christ, so all-pervading and all. Nay, a good and a spur which quickened every nerve. Were it not almost an indignity to bring them in reference to His great Majesty? Third Sunday after Trinity Humility, Trust, Watchfulness, Suffering. It must have points of contact with every part of my life. Supposing this we must exercise faith upon Him, and have constant recourse to Him, in all that we do for the supplies of His grace and Spirit (1 Peter 2:20; 1 Peter 5:7; John 16:16, 23, 26).3. It is that we are slow to learn in. But our Lord, being God, became man, bore our sins and carried our sorrows, grew up through our life, and tasted death for every man. One offers it in his own name, he is sacrificing to selfishness; another offers it in the name of fashion, another in the name of respectability, but there can be no reality in our services unless offered in the name of Christ.(H. God is waiting this morning to mark the opening hours for every ready and willing heart with a touch of life and power that will lift our lives to higher pleasures and offer to our vision grander horizons of hope and holy service. (5) There are certain solemn times when this great motive is and must be expressly recognized; but when the whole man is possessed with the love of Christ, the whole ordinary being follows the direction of the central impulse. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. November 8, 1874. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 13.--"Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." MY text is so very short that you cannot forget it; and, I am quite certain, if you are Christians at all, you will be sure to agree with it. There is something in these words that might surprise us. The Spirit moves all, and upon this the difference between man's actions depends. 1. Do St. There is no need to enter into the various component elements which go to make up this moral force. (5) There are certain solemn times when this great motive is and must be expressly recognized; but when the whole man is possessed with the love of Christ, the whole ordinary being follows the direction of the central impulse. They admire the gospel, but never think of realizing it. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. . It is that which lends them their appearance of depth, and the best of their brilliance. "Your Life is Hid" (Col. Iii. "GIVING THANKS INTO GOD AND THE FATHER BY HIM." It is worth while to do so. He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. It is well, as people's devotions now are, if Christians really prayed to God to carry them through the trials of the day, as really believing that for this they needed the special help of God. A strained and exaggerated view of religion has been put before them, alien from their habits of thought, and by no means supported by the example of its professors.II. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. Faith and Love Towards Christ. (Admonition 5.) Their labor seems to crystallize and become its own memorial. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? But whatever it be, reality is its necessary condition. 16 Let the Word Martin LutherEpistle Sermons, Vol. Col 4:9 seems to say these two letters (Admonition 6). 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. Many do not know the right answer, or the full answer. He is your King. The labourer working under the useful light and genial warmth does not lose his time and dazzle his sight in gazing on the sun, but plies his arm with his eye fixed on his work, and so uses for its intended purpose the light God has bestowed. (Admonition 6). save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. "If ye then be risen" (Col. iii. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. He would be a bad workman and a bad Christian if he were. [1924] St. Servants, to wit, that they ever keep in view the humility of their condition; but masters, that they lose not recollection of their nature, in which they are constituted on an equality with servants. Because all that comes from God to us must be by His hand.III. There can be no duty except where there is a matter of obedience; and it might seem to us that peace is a something over which we have no power. (b) Being referred to the glory of God, from indifferent they become holy and acceptable to God.3. )PeopleChristians, Colossians, Paul, TimothyPlacesColossaeTopicsAct, Deed, Giving, Praise, Thanks, Whatever, Whatsoever, WhetherOutline1. )The all-pervasiveness of religionW. None but pure gold may receive the special goldsmith's mark, none but true, honest work can bear the mark of the Lord Jesus.(H. This is all the Scriptures teach, and this is all we have to learn. So in like manner the name of Jesus (Acts 4:7; Matthew 7:22; Matthew 24:5; Matthew 18:20). What people hate is being in earnest at all, and so they do not wish to pray for the grace of God lest they should have to be at the pains of using it. Nothing so mean that it was thought unworthy of this monogram; nothing so glorious that it was considered unfit to have that excelling glory added thereto. For the confirmation of faith. (2) Our thanks cannot be grateful to the Father except addressed and presented by Christ. A workbook for the biblical lesson on the book of Colossians, that teaches we should be light to the world. [1924] St. Let Him be the beginning from whom all flows, the end in whom all are gathered, our aim, our reward. As a little square serves an artificer to design and mark out a multitude of lines, and to correct those that are amiss, so by this little rule there is no human action respecting which we cannot ascertain whether it is right or wrong; nor is there any part of our lives which this rule is not capable of guiding and forming to perfection. Stewart. "For Ye are Dead" (Col. Iii. permeating this life that it hallows everything.1. Take any life, in any condition or time, and there is help and hope for it in Jesus. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. To walk in the religion of the Lord Jesus (Micah 4:5; 2 Timothy 2:19; Matthew 10:22; Luke 21:17; Revelation 2:3, 13).7. 3). (2) The facts implied in the name, "The Lord Jesus," rest upon evidence as strong as can possibly be alleged for anything. B. SimpsonDays of Heaven Upon Earth, February 17. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living. (3) He sacrifices those which are in their nature indifferent; e.g., if this rule is observed in eating and drinking, acts indifferent in their nature,(a) the sacred name will purge them of the excess of intemperance on the one hand, and the foolish scruples of superstition on the other. And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. Others have a mighty Saviour, because they make Him to be great and mighty. It is there that the young souls who are to be our successors in cultivating the vineyard of God are to be trained and developed; it is there the process is to begin of restraining and cleansing away the corruption inherent in them as the children of sinful men; there that their earliest longings after fellowship Friedrich SchleiermacherSelected Sermons of SchleiermacherUnity and Peace. But, after that he had made mention of these evils, he added and said, "On account of which cometh the wrath of God on the sons of unbelief." And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. Guthrie, D. D. He who lives for the glory of God has an end in view which lends dignity to the man and to his life. (Admonition 6). MY devout hearers! [1923] Surely it was a wholesome alarm that believers might not think that they could be saved on account of their faith alone, even although they should live in these evils: the Apostle James with most clear speech crying out against that notion, and saying, "If any say that he have faith, and have not works, shall his faith be able to save him?" ", II. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory. November 8, 1874. The life of the saint and of the sinner are made up very much of the same commonplace duties, and in all that is patent to the world there may be little difference between them: but the spirit by which they are actuated constitutes a gulf between them as wide as that which divides light and darkness, heaven and hell.3. Take a man whose motives is the advancement of himself or his family. It must therefore be concluded that He is not a creature, but very God. Ulysses said, "What's that?" All divine truths may be reduced to these two heads,--faith and love; what we ought to believe, and what we ought to do. Be their case John Brown (of Wamphray)Christ The Way, The Truth, and The LifeCups Running OverBrokenness, however, is but the beginning of Revival. Before we come to speak of some particular cases of deadness, wherein believers are to make use of Christ as the Life, we shall first propose some useful consequences and deductions from what hath been spoken of this life; and, I. Christ, therein revealed, has laid hold upon the whole of life. 3). 5. (2) How many of us fall short of this.(J. He then goes on to declare that the believer's life is in Christ, "for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." permeating this life that it hallows everything.1. "Ephraim hath made many altars to sin." How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? Has it these points? Solomon was called to build the temple of the Lord, but every man who is an honest worker, who does his best in the place where heaven has put him, is building up a temple, holy, acceptable to God. How can we do both at once without distraction study, speak, or do and think of Christ at the same time? Gregory to Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage. --Colossians iii. Colossians 3:4.--Christ who is our life. save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. Today's Lesson: Thursday, February 23 Podcast Version: Soundcloud, iTunes, or Spotify Colossians 3:10-14 10 and have put on the new self. Some men make Him to be "a root out of a dry ground," "without form or comeliness." He is nothing to them; they do not want Him. And the reply was, "The body of a common man, doing a common work, and for a common reward." (Dean Alford. (1) Nothing is more common than a man with a powerful motive which rules his whole life gain, ambition, love of family, science, art, victory, the exercise of an energetic nature. And who looks down upon us? It is this: "Christ must live it in me." (c)That we live in entire confidence in and dependence upon Him.4. Now, this definite, absolute and final putting off of ourselves in an act of death, is something we cannot do ourselves. None but pure gold may receive the special goldsmith's mark, none but true, honest work can bear the mark of the Lord Jesus.(H. Stewart.I begin to see that religion consists not so much in joyous feelings as in a constant exercise of devotedness to God, and in laying ourselves out for the good of others.(D. Because we cannot be accepted but by Him (Ephesians 1:6; Hebrews 13:15; Hebrews 5:1).4. 3). Observe the extent of this saying. Second, verses 5-17 elaborate the meaning of this exhortation. "Ephraim is joined to idols, let him alone." When thou hast learned to do all things to Jesus, it will shed pleasure over all dull things, softness over hard things, peace over trial. But what is it, that it is not enough for him to say, "Do ye put down all," but that he added the conjunction and said, "ye also?" Doing every thing in the name of . These lessons are outlined as expository studies so that you get both a doctrinal study of the verses as well as a spiritual lesson. IIEaster Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. November 8, 1874. 2. It is not in our power to act as we please, or for our own ends (Romans 14:7-8). Our Father, our Friend and Brother, who came down from heaven and suffered for us, is ready to help and reward us. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. Or is not their influence for the most part rather a constraining power of which he is unconscious, rather than a stimulus carried on by conscious effort? II, Easter Wednesday Also Suited to Easter Tuesday. The Minister of State in his cabinet, labouring to do right and caring nothing for popularity; and the little servant-maid in the kitchen, who scorns to tell a lie, or neglect her daily duties, are both in their respective stations working for God, doing their duty. "And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful." For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. We must not so take the precept as if we were obliged in every act and word to raise our thoughts directly to Christ. 3). And so men satisfy themselves with being Christian hearers and heathen livers, without the least suspicion of inconsistency.3. Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 2. 1. Bad as the world is, what is good in it is due to Christ. Some Christians have a very small Saviour, for they are not willing to receive Him fully, and let Him do great and mighty things for them. Nor indeed does infrequency of communication cause any harm where the affection of love remains uninterrupted in one's mind. "Your life is hid" (Col. iii. Observe the extent of this saying. Revival is when we can say "yes" at any moment of the day. The peace of God. )The acceptable prayerH. (3) But based on reality it must also be real to me, or it cannot be my motive. A. Jacob, D. D.)Doing all in the name of ChristI. A beginning indeed, I find, but no end of thy miseries. For Charles KingsleyAll Saints' Day and Other SermonsMay 5. save that lest they should not think that they did those evils and lived in them with impunity on this account, because their faith set them free from wrath, which cometh upon the sons of unbelief, doing these things, and living in them without faith. At the Arno GaebeleinThe Lord of GloryChrist Our Life. (b)That we act according to His will. It is this: "Christ must live it in me." For it is impossible that they should be in the name of Christ except our understandings and will so address them. 3). Bring common iron into proper contact with the magnet, it will borrow the strange attractive virtue, and itself become magnetic. 1 If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. 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